Gunay Duagi

Counsel, KPMG Legal

Email gduagi@kpmglegal.ro

Phone +40 372 377 923

Practice Areas

  • Financial Services
  • Fintech
  • Capital Markets

Biography

Günay’s practice focuses on: setting-up, authorizations and licensing, consumer protection and regulatory issues for credit institutions and non-banking financial institutions as well as listing of issuers on Romanian and international capital markets. His experience also includes M&A and restructuring mandates for financial institutions in Romania as well as Share Option Plans, Squeeze-out, Cash-Pooling and assistance on MiFID II and Market Abuse projects. Günay is an associate professor at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies where he teaches Business Law.

Notable achievements

Over the last few years, Günay has successfully assisted 3 innovative foreign FinTech companies with providing online lending platforms in complex authorization projects to become licensed as non-banking financial institutions, coordinated 2 listings and several delistings/squeeze-outs of Romanian companies on the AeRO Market, assisted 3 credit institutions during the shareholder and merger authorisation process with the National Bank of Romania, and has been involved in 5 landmark transactions on the Romanian market.

Education & Bar Admission

University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law (Bachelor in Law)

University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law (Master in Law)

Bucharest University of Economic Studies (Masters in Banking and Insurance)

Bucharest Bar Association

AeRO Market Consultant